queuebit's blog

Code School

• Report Card
• Completed Courses
  • Try Ruby
  • Try Git
  • Try R
  • Rails for Zombies Redux
  • JQuery Air: First Flight
  • Ruby Bits
  • Ruby Bits Part 2

Learn Ruby The Hard Way

• Exercises 1 - 26

Well Grounded Rubyist

• Chapter 1
  • ruby -cw - checks syntax and gives warnings without executing
  • irb --simple-prompt --noecho - simpler prompt without echos (aka self-explanatory)
  • load filename.rb - this will allow me to update while testing in irb
  • rake - Ruby make task-management utility
  • ri String#upcase - quickly look at rdocs for given method / class
  • gem install ___ - really easy to add third party gems

• Chapter 2

  • def m(a, b=2, *c, d) - example of argument lists

Git Immersion

• Pro Git videos
• Getting Started / Basics
• Dealing with the Past
• Fixing Mistakes

Jekyll

• After a few failures, I have this running on queuebit.github.io

Vagrant

• Getting Started